Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"You can be different, even crazy, as long as you come out of the house every now and then, so folks don't think you're an ax murderer. Two, if there's a story to tell, you can be sure there'll be someone to tell it."
-from Beautiful Creatures (The Caster Chronicles, Book #1)
"Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord."
-from Beautiful Creatures (The Caster Chronicles, Book #1)
"You couldn't take two roads. And once you were on one, there was no going back."
-from Beautiful Creatures (The Caster Chronicles, Book #1)
"You couldn't change where you were from. But still, you didn't have to stay there. You didn't have to stay stuck in the past."
-from Beautiful Creatures (The Caster Chronicles, Book #1)
"Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you."
-from Beautiful Creatures (The Caster Chronicles, Book #1)
"It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking."
-from Beautiful Creatures (The Caster Chronicles, Book #1)
We can easily forgive a child
who is afraid of the dark;
the real tragedy of life is when
men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
"She showed me there was another world within the cracks of our uneven sidewalks. One that had been there all along, hidden in plain sight."
-from Beautiful Darkness (The Caster Chronicles, Book #2)
"'How can a place be a no place? You're either in a place, or you're not.' But as I said it, I knew it wasn't true."
-from Beautiful Darkness (The Caster Chronicles, Book #2)
"I knew I was in the moment before the thing happens -- the thing that changes your life forever. It was like time stopped, even though everything around me was still moving."
-from Beautiful Darkness (The Caster Chronicles, Book #2)
"I think you'll find the impossible is possible more often than we think."
-from Beautiful Darkness (The Caster Chronicles, Book #2)
"It's funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it's hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses."
-from Beautiful Chaos (The Caster Chronicles, Book #3)
"Black skeletons of enormous homes reduced to nothing but charred framework, as empty and hollow as the towns the Union soldiers left in their wake. ... It was as if the ground itself had been scarred by what happened here."
-from Beautiful Chaos (The Caster Chronicles, Book #3)
"I have been bent and broken, but -- I hope -- into a better shape."
-from Beautiful Chaos (The Caster Chronicles, Book #3)
"Sorry to disappoint you. He's not evil. He's just a jerk. Sometimes it's a fine line."
-from Beautiful Chaos (The Caster Chronicles, Book #3)
"Do you believe in love before first sight?"
-from Beautiful Chaos (The Caster Chronicles, Book #3)
"Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?"
-from Beautiful Redemption (The Caster Chronicles, Book #4)
"Sometimes we make our own fate. Things the cards can't see. Depends on which side a the gate you choose."
-from Beautiful Redemption (The Caster Chronicles, Book #4)
"How could my insides be so taut and relaxed at once? After a lifetime of hoping to meet him, imagining what he might be like, he was not what I'd expected, mostly because he put up with me."
-from Incarnate (Newsoul, Book #1) by Jodi Meadows
"Story has it that when you meet your match, it's usually at a dedication, because you're not seeing what body someone is in. You're drawn to their soul. Maybe someone's been waiting for her."
-from Incarnate (Newsoul, Book #1) by Jodi Meadows
"Well, of course I thought I felt something for my hero who turned out to be a good man, too. I shouldn't have expected anything less."
-from Incarnate (Newsoul, Book #1) by Jodi Meadows
"I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met."
-from Incarnate (Newsoul, Book #1)
"It's like when part of you stops hurting and suddenly you're yourself again, healthy and whole, and only then do you understand that you've been in pain for awhile."
-from Boundless (Unearthly Trilogy, Book #3)
"I have to be strong, I have to remember why we broke up in the first place ... where he wouldn't be constantly kept in the dark. He needs someone normal. ... Someone he can protect the way a man protects his woman, and not the other way around. Someone not me."
-from Boundless (Unearthly Trilogy, Book #3)
"I lied. I said I could never care for him. I told him I never wanted to see him again. And he looked at me for a long moment, and then he was gone. Just like that. I never told anyone about that night." She exhales through her lips like she's just set down something heavy. "So there's your story. I lied." "You did care for him," I say carefully. "I loved him," she whispers. "He was my sun and moon for a time. I was crazy about him."
-from Boundless (Unearthly Trilogy, Book #3)
"So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more."
-from Boundless (Unearthly Trilogy, Book #3)
"I could stay here and get no answers, or I could take my chances with the crazy fearless boy."
-from False Memory by Dan Krokos
"Whatever was between us is reset. I don't know you. ... Why did you do it Noah? Why did you think you had that right? We grew up together. You knew I could take care of myself."
-from False Memory by Dan Krokos
"These echos of my love for him, they don't truly belong to this new person I've become. Claiming them would be selfish, because Noach obviously still thinks of me as the Girl Before. Who knows how he'll feel when he realizes she's long gone."
-from False Memory by Dan Krokos
"I'm starting to realize my life doesn't have to be about an identity, or a lack of one. If I can focus on the little moments, however fleeting, they become my own. No one experiences them the way I do but me."
-from False Memory by Dan Krokos
